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I concur with the reviewers that significant enhancements have been made to the manuscript allowing it to now be accepted for publication. This is especially the case with the revised figure legends.
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The Author improved the paper carefully, Now the paper could be accepted for publication.
Best Regards
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Authors have addressed all the comments and suggestions made in earlier review report. All the corrections are satisfactory and the manuscript can be accepted in its current form.
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I agree with the reviewers that some revisions are in order before this manuscript can be considered further for publication. Please carefully address each of the reviewers’ comments when resubmitting your manuscript. The primary concern was that there were several grammatical issues that need attention.
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Comments for Author,
In this paper, The Author tries to explore the " Nickel mine soil is a potential source for soybean plant growth-promoting and heavy metal tolerant rhizobia". The paper is the scope of Peerj. However,
I have some comments before accepting this paper.
Comments for Author,
These sentences need more related papers. to improve please support it. " Heavy metal
contamination is a risk to food security, ecological environment, and even to human health
through bioaccumulation in the food chain" a- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89984-4_19
This below sentences make no sense;
In this study, through the cultivation experiment of soybean plant in nickel mine soil, we
aimed to find effective plant growth promoting and heavy metal resistant strains to facilitate
phytoremediation of heavy metal contaminated soil.
Please rewrite the above sentences.
Please give the coordinate of soil that the Authors collected.
Plant growth ability test section should be reduced. There are some confusion
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The design of the experiment was acceptable.
The results are reasosable.
In the current study, authors have isolated plant growth promoting symbiotic strains from nickel mine soils with the idea of using such isolates for phytoremediation. The manuscript is well written with detailed description of the methods and proper interpretation of the results.
Few minor suggestions/corrections are detailed in the edited version of the manuscript. Please address them.
All the research questions are well defined and authors have conducted all the necessary experimentals to support their study.
The result are well represented and all the necessary raw files were provided.
However, it would be good to include the sequencing files as a word or text file in a zip format so that it is easily accessible.
Authors should include title and figure legends or footnotes for all the tables and figures wherever applicable along with the abbreviations.
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